Meanwhile, that ol' sneak Tom Ford is rumored to be hosting a cocktail party this week in New York at which he will stealthily unveil his first women's wear collection. [WWD]

Zac Posen is presenting his main line in Paris this season, and his lower-priced Z Spoke collection for Saks in New York City. "It's a bit like a marathon at the moment," says the designer. "The only time I can be alone in my studio is from 12-3.30am so I'm always at work then. I'm pretty tired but any time you can make to create is beautiful. There's nothing higher than creative time." Of the Zac Posen collection, he says, "There will be a lot of what I'm calling sex dresses. I've made a lot of pieces that can seduce and that will secure the deal. The dresses will be iconic, architectural and anatomical. We want to be the go-to destination for when women want to feel hot to trot." [Vogue UK]

Marc Jacobs finally opened his 81st West Village shop, an enterprise that will sell art and photography books under the name Bookmarc. Jacobs' business partner, Robert Duffy, admits he had been after the location — formerly the site of the local independent Biography Bookshop — for years. "It's caddy-corner to our women's collection store and I've always desired that space," he says. But Duffy rejects the claims made by some residents that the 97 Marc Jacobs stores currently operating on and around Bleecker St. are, well, ruining the neighborhood. "I could have taken one giant space and knocked all the walls down like other people have done," says Duffy. "Is it good for the neighborhood, bad for the neighborhood? I don't know. My original store there was a dentist office that was in terrible disrepair.…I did my research. I found the original pictures of that store from 18-whatever, and I put in big plateglass windows, which were there in 18-whatever. Did it revitalize the street in a way? Did it make it a shopping street in a way? I didn't ask everybody else to follow me there.…I think that having the men's stores on West Fourth is much better than having two empty storefronts." [WWD]

Covering Fashion's Night Out for CBS has been hell, says producer Susan Zirinsky. "It's been like going to war, because of the details to attention [sic] and because of the multiplatform." Fashion: destroying ordinary folks' sense of perspective since 18-whatever. [NYDN]

Roberto Cavalli: Now profitable again. The company made $2.5 million in the first six months of this year, compared with a loss of $3.5 million during the same period last year. [WWD]

Coming about four years late to the taxidermy trend, Opening Ceremony is selling a line of scarves printed with stuffed-'n'-mounted animals. [OC]

Express and Forever 21 are two chains with nary a grain of fashion originality between them — but that didn't stop the former from suing the latter for allegedly copying some of its plaids. Express lost. [WWD]